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Politics & government fact checks
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FactCheck.orgPolitics & government
Former Vice President Joe Biden “invented the Office of President-elect.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
The Senate filibuster is a "Jim Crow relic."
Publisher’s rating: Link goes back before Civil War
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar vowed "to remove senior’s ‘entitlements,’ Social Security/Medicare."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Says as Assembly Speaker he is a "constitutional officer" of Wisconsin.
Publisher’s rating: Half True
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Kamala Harris said “once Trump’s gone” from the White House, “we’ll be coming for you next. You will feel the vengeance of a nation.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Washington PostPolitics & government
“[Rep. Adam Schiff] won’t tell you that he just voted to send $100 billion to foreign countries."
Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios
PolitiFactPolitics & government
"If the impeachment reaches the house and passes to the senate and isn’t passed the first term is nullified and Trump can run two more terms."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Joe Biden threatened to assassinate Ukraine’s former president.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
CNN reported Donald Trump died on Nov. 1.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Former President Donald Trump wore “Proud Boy gang colors” Oct. 27, 2024, at Madison Square Garden.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
"Donald Trump has appointed NBA legend Karl Malone as the new director of Child Protective Services."
Publisher’s rating: False
Washington PostPolitics & government
"Historically, and even in recent history, Democratic and Republican administrations, there have not been sanctions put in place for the leaders of foreign governments where we have diplomatic relations and even where we don’t have diplomatic relations.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
CNN reported Sept. 7, 2023, that President Joe Biden’s family admitted “he died and was replaced by an actor in 2019.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Former President Donald Trump “didn’t attend the graduations” of his other children.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Clint Eastwood called Barack Obama an "incompetent, lying, insincere, narcissistic, double-talking, socialist hypocrite, and fiscally irresponsible moron who spent eight years in the White House trying to … turn our wonderful country into a Muslim loving, socialist sh--hole like the one he came from, and I don’t mean Hawaii!"
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
President Joe Biden changed the State of the Union Address from summer to March.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
FactCheck.orgPolitics & government
"looks like Jared Kushner has to 'pay back the $2billion from Saudi Arabia In Full to The Government.'"
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence